If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

You can't develop the world but you can develop your world because the world will one day fall but your world will always walk with you where ever you go.

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.